The National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides leadership and funding for programs that advance agricultural-related sciences. This is a new position in leadership for ensuring relevant data science questions are an important part of NIFA’s science agenda and its ability to address issues contained in NIFA’s Strategic Plan and the REE Action Plan. The successful applicant will lead agency research and education initiatives on agricultural data science, cyber informatics, interagency initiative in cyber physical systems and other programs as assigned that advance the generation, collection, handling and utilization of data for food and agricultural systems.

Official title: Biological Science Specialist GS-0401-13/14/15.

NIFA is a Federal Agency. By Federal law you must be a U.S. citizen to apply.

Other requirements are in the usajobs.gov at the application link listed below.

NIFA is USDA’s extramural funding agency that supports user-inspired research, education, and extension for providing transformative solutions in food and agricultural sciences. We invest in and support initiatives that ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA applies an integrated approach to ensure that groundbreaking discoveries in agriculture-related sciences and technologies reach the people who can put them into practice.